Tag Archives: Holiday

From New Year’s Day through Christmas, each year is full of holidays celebrated by the diverse cultures of the world — Setsubun in Japan, Halloween in America, and so many more. LEGO builders love to create seasonal models to celebrate these red-letter days.

10216 Winter Village Bakery coming soon!

Following last year’s Winter Toy Shop, LEGO will release 10216 Winter Village Bakery for this holiday season. If the release schedule follows last year’s, then the set should be available on October 1st. For $55, you get 7 ½ minifigs and almost 700 pieces.

Here’s the official announcement from LEGO:

10216 – Winter Village Bakery


Ages 12+
687 pieces
US $ 54.99 UK £ 49.99 DE 54.99 € CA $74.99

Return to yesteryear with this festive holiday scene!

It’s a winter wonderland in this snow-covered little town! A special-delivery evergreen, all ready for decorating, arrives at the tree-seller’s stand by horse-drawn cart, while ice skaters frolic on the frozen pond with colorful lights and a curious owl perched overhead. Just look out for the freshly-shoveled snow piles – one skater has already tumbled in head-first! At the bakery nearby, the friendly baker prepares delicious holiday treats in his oven and rings up sales at the cash register. Push the glowing LEGO Power Functions brick to fill the building with warm interior light! Includes 7 ½ minifigures, snow owl, horse and lots of winter accessories.
• Includes 7 ½ minifigures as well as a snow owl and horse!
• Features LEGO Power Functions light-up brick which lights the interior of the bakery when you push it!
• Includes lots of fun winter accessories like a dark blue minifigure hood with new fur print!
• Prepare holiday treats and ring up sales at the cash register!
• Skate on the frozen pond made of 8×8 transparent blue plates!
• Interesting elements include a camera, tan baguettes, croissants, green apple, 8×8 transparent blue plates, medium blue tiles and even a new ‘caramel’ color for several brick and arch elements outside the bakery!
• Features an evergreen tree for decorating, tree seller’s stand and even a horse-drawn cart!
• Bakery measures 7″ (18 cm) wide!
• Completed model (depending on space allocated between the individual parts) measures 16″ (40 cm) wide, 12″ (30 cm) deep and 7″ (18 cm) high!

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Since he’s dead, he can take off his head

Proximity to Valentine’s Day seems appropriate enough for the Halloween/Christmas hybrid that is The Nightmare Before Christmas.

This vignette by Stefan (brainbikerider) featuring Jack Skellington singing beneath the full moon won a recent vignette contest among Austrian LEGO fans.

LEGO Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington

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Happy New Year 2010, Year of the Tiger!

かわいいレゴずき (I Love Cute LEGO) has a great roundup of New Year’s best wishes from our LEGO friends over in Japan, starting with one of their own:

LEGO Year of the Tiger

Here are a few more of my favorites.

muntax has built a tiger truck (“寅っく” for a lovely bilingual pun):

LEGO Year of the Tiger

Hiro’s tiger burns bright in the forests of the night — or at least in a thicket of bamboo :

LEGO Year of the Tiger

Satoru’s tiger bust would look great on any mantle, in any year:

LEGO Year of the Tiger

Check out I Love Cute LEGO for the full roundup — click the links in the second half of the post.

Tigers are, of course, the most awesome animal in the Chinese Zodiac. 2010 looks to be a pretty good year.

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Buon natale

Love the composition, photography and sentiment. It’s always nice when photographers and artists like Marco Pece (udronotto) use LEGO in their work.

LEGO udronotto buon natale

It’s worth checking out the rest of his photostream. Not exactly purist, but a lot of fun stuff.

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Holiday cheer, Lino-style

Lino Martins wishes everyone a very happy holidays, as Santa and Natasha make a second appearance next to this sweet 1966 Ford Galaxie, part of this month’s LUGNuts challenge, A Galaxie of Possibilities.

LEGO 1966 Ford Galaxie

Click the pic to read Lino’s full write-up.

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A blast of X-mas cheer!

Andrew Colunga wishes you happy holidays with this colorful X-maspunk ray gun :)

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A cozy cottage

Ricardo Prates wishes you a Merry Christmas with this adorable little scene.

LEGO

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Holiday fun

Chris McVeigh (powerpig) is posting an advent calendar of spectacular photos throughout the month of December. Check this gallery often to see what’s new each day.

In my opinion these photos would make for some excellent greeting cards.

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MisaQa launches her 2009 LEGO Advent Calendar

One of my favorite holiday traditions in the LEGO fan community is MisaQa‘s annual Advent Calendar, taking us day by day from December 1st through Christmas Eve. This year, she’s presenting a new microscale building each day.

LEGO Twins Tower

Keep an eye on the Flickr photoset or MisaQa’s website, STUD & TUBE.

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Announcing Creations for Charity!

I’m excited to announce a new online charity event that has just started! The event, called Creations for Charity, sells custom LEGO creations from fan builders to raise money to buy LEGO for underprivileged children. All funds will be used to buy LEGO sets for the charity Toys for Tots. From now until early-December, there will be new creations listed to be auctioned. Come visit the store to see what we have!

If you are interested in contributing a creation, you can read the details here. Happy holidays everyone!

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Three-score barrels of powder below /   To prove old England’s overthrow

Even though today is Guy Fawkes Day, I do not recommend burning this CubeDude effigy built by Paul Lee (polywen):

LEGO CubeDude Guy Fawkes

LEGO does, after all, give off a rather acrid smell when burnt…

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Creepy minifigs invade Halloween... again

Jamie Spencer (Morgan19) once again posted some very creative and creepy minifigs throughout the past several weeks. Most of them use custom non-LEGO accessories but some are made from all LEGO parts. Here are a few of my favorites:


See the many more in the gallery on Flickr!

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